The Playback options, located next to the Range Slider, let you change settings regarding animation playback, such as frame rate, looping, and Auto keying.
A. Framerate menu B. Loop C. Cached Playback D. Volume E. Auto Key F. Animation Preferences
Note: Cached Playback is not available in Maya LT.
- Framerate
- The Framerate menu lets you set the scene frame rate in frames per second (fps). It displays the current frame rate.
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- When you change the Framerate, it updates once the animation has completed a cycle or you restart it.
- Loop
- Click this icon to cycle through 3 animation playback states:
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- Continuous Loop
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- Repeats the play range on playback.
- Play once
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- Plays the play range once.
- Oscillating Loop
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- Loops the play range forward and backward.
- Continuous Loop
- Volume
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- Click the Volume icon to show a slider where you can adjust the sound level of the current scene.
- Double-click this icon to turn off the sound. The icon changes
to indicate that the sound is muted.
- Right-click the icon to access the Audio menu, where you can import or delete audio into the scene, as well as choose how the audio waveform is displayed on the Time Slider.
- Auto Key
- This icon lets you turn on Auto key mode. Autokey lets you automatically set keys on attributes as you change the current time and attribute value. See Use Auto Key for more.
- Time Slider Preferences
- This icon is a shortcut to Time Slider preferences, which let you set how you want key ticks, and time to show on the Time Slider.